StorageGRID Administration (SGWSADM) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Module 1: StorageGRID Components and Services

  • StorageGRID components
    • Admin nodes
    • Storage nodes
    • API Gateway node
    • Archive node
  • Node service workflows
  • Optimal storage nodes

Module 2: StorageGRID Grid Manager

  • Grid manager
    • Accessing
    • Dashboard
    • Menus
    • Node page
    • Topology tree
  • StorageGRID configuration options
  • Transformation options
  • Object Durability options
  • StorageGRID adminstrators
    • Accounts
    • Access control
    • Local groups
    • Identity federation
  • StorageGRID management API

Module 3: Storage Tenant Administration

  • Tenant accounts
  • StorageGRID grid manager tenants page
  • Tenant manager
  • Tenant access control
  • Bucket access control
  • S3 Bucket configuration options
  • Compliance
  • Platform services
  • CloudMirror replication
  • Notifications configuration
  • StorageGRID tenant API

Module 4: Information Lifecycle Management

  • ILM policies and rules
  • Storage pools
  • Storage grades
  • S3 Regions
  • Configuring ILM policies

Module 5: Monitoring the StorageGRID System

  • Alarms
  • Severity indictors
  • Grid node events
  • Alarm class types
  • Notifications
  • Configuring notifications
  • Metrics API

Module 6: StorageGRID Archive Nodes

  • Types
  • Workflow during object archiving
  • Archiving to the cloud
  • Archiving to tape

Module 7: StorageGRID NAS Bridge

  • NAS bridge
  • File system and buckets
  • Configuration workflow
  • Configuring an SMB file system
  • Configuring an NFS file system
  • Maintenance tasks

Module 8: StorageGRID Maintenance

  • StorageGRID autosupport
  • Audit log
  • Managing StorageGRID services
  • Monitoring node services
  • Maintenance procedures
  • StorageGRID system tasks
  • Adding nodes
  • Expanding the system
  • Recovering nodes
  • StorageGRID software upgrades

Module 9: Integrating a StorageGRID System

  • ONTAP FabricPool
  • Security certificates
  • Add an ONTAP cloud-capacity tier
  • SolidFire backup to cloud
  • E-Series cloud connector
  • NetApp cloud sync
  • NetApp SaaS backup

Labs:

  • Exploring Grid manager
  • Creating and managing StorageGRID administrator accounts
  • Managing tenant accounts
  • Using S3 tenant accounts
  • Configuring basic ILM
  • Object storage tiering
  • Placement based an object Metadata
  • Alarm management
  • Reporting
  • Archiving to the cloud
  • Configuring the NAS bridge
  • Grid maintenance tasks
  • Integrating with a swift protocol client
  • Using API docs to manage the StorageGRID system